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Mary Read Research Paper

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Mary Read was a historically famous female pirate, because she lived in a really rough time period where women could not do a lot of things. Mary Read had to pretend to be a boy almost all her life, because her 1/2 brother Mark died a few days after Mary was born, and to keep the death a secret from her grandmother who supported Mary and her mother because she thought Mark was still alive, that is why she had to pretend to be a boy. Like a usual boy Mary had to go out and get a job to help support the family. Once she could she was recruited to join the army because all her life people thought she was a boy. She then met her future husband and showed him her true gender. They got married, and left the army. Her husband died a few months into

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